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VIDEO AUDITION/GENERAL INFORMATION:​

• Video Due Date: Please see your Eco Cast Invite for the Due Date (disregard the Eco Cast date...this is just a work around)

• Please clear ANY AND ALL conflicts and/or contract issues with Julia Flores BEFORE you audition Julia@Florescasting.com

• ENSEMBLE: Our ensemble will be asked to understudy our Principals, so please prepare/share material for the principal role of your choice 

• SIDES AND LYRIC NOTE: Absolutely encouraging you to make choices and be specific, but the choices should be grounded and honest, not caricature. The more human and heartfelt, the more you engage your audience. Connect, communicate and tell the story. 

• ​Video Auditions are by invite only and will be accepted if you are an LA or Orange County local hire.​​​​ We will be going through each submission to Breakdown Express and will be sending invites via Eco Cast. ​​​

• If you received an Eco Cast invite, please submit video there. We are sharing videos with the rest of the team on that format. 

• If you do not have access to Breakdown Services, please send all requested material and information (see below) to Julia Julia@Florescasting.com via Dropbox, (DB is the preference always!) Youtube or Google. Please do not send with passwords/make sure that video is unlocked and viewable for the next few months at least. We will not open WeTransfer or direct downloads.​​

• Because of the large number of videos being submitted, we can only promise to view the videos directly requested by Flores Casting.

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​ VIDEO AUDITION CHECKLIST (please BE SURE to include the following):​

• • Video Due Date: Please see your Eco Cast Invite for the Due Date (disregard the Eco Cast date; this is just a work around)

  • Please check WHAT TO PREP and SIDES/VOCALS lists in Dropbox before auditioning 

  • ​SLATE: A full body view and introduce yourself please and thank you!

  • PLEASE SUBMIT SIDES and VOCALS requested​

  • ACTOR CONTACT SHEET (see Dropbox)

  • HEADSHOT and RESUME ​​

  • Please tape all audition material listed for the role(s) you have been asked to read and material for any other roles you feel drawn to! Just add them to the same upload on Eco Cast.

  • Please send separate links for the audition material requested (i.e. one link for sides, one for vocals and one for choreo). If you are an overachiever, it is helpful for the team if you separate the different songs too!​

BREAKDOWN

Notes:

- No housing or travel available.

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A note on character and casting:

While others’ portrayals of these roles may be informative, please don’t feel the need to imitate any version you may have seen before. These roles are written with great emotional specificity, but I am eager to see them through a variety of lenses and lived experiences across all racial, gender, and neurodivergent identities. Pronouns listed are derived from the text, but we are open to a broader range in casting. We encourage you to bring your most authentic self to the material, and look forward to seeing your work.

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EVAN HANSEN: (18+ to play 17) Evan is driven by deep longing for friendship and connection, at odds with the conflicting belief he is a burden to others. Deeply feeling, highly perceptive, fragile. Even through anxiety and depression, it is equally important we see his earnest optimism and determination to make his senior year positive.

(Pop Tenor G2-B4 with strong falsetto)

CONNOR MURPHY: (18+ to play 17) Zoe’s brother. Evan’s classmate. Lonely, pained, bitter, disillusioned by perceived cruelty and carelessness, Connor decides to take his own life. He continues to appear as a projection of Evan’s mind, giving voice to Evan’s hopes and fears, offering Evan solace, kinship, highlighting their commonality.

(Pop Tenor G2-G#4)

ZOE MURPHY: (18+ to play 16) Connor's younger sister. Evan’s longtime crush. Highly intelligent, guarded. She sees the contradiction of her family’s outward affluent social appearance juxtaposed with the disfunction inside it; this may have jaded her beyond her years. She moves through school social spheres with apparent ease and non-attachment, masking the pain of living in her brother’s shadow.

(Pop Sop/Belter F3-E5)

ALANA BECK: (18+ to play 17). A classmate of Evan’s. Highly motivated, hyper-organized, ambitious, kind. While exuding confidence, she carries a deep hidden loneliness. While her ambition can blur into opportunism, it is rooted in genuine yearning for connection and community.

(Pop Belter F3-E5)

JARED KLEINMAN: (Male-identifying, 18+ to play 17), Evan’s classmate. Uses sarcastic humor to hide insecurities. Jared may not even be keenly aware of his own loneliness. Cynical but not heartless, he’s far more emotionally invested in than he would dare to let on.

(Pop Tenor A2-B4)

HEIDI HANSEN: (Late 30s to 40s) Evan’s mother, fiercely loving single parent, burning the candle at both ends. Grappling with the guilt of her absence and the fear of failing her son. In that transitional time raising a 17-year-old where each instinct contradicts the last— to nurture gently, risking keeping him fragile? Or to push him into adulthood, risking a break that may not heal?

(Pop Belter F3-Eb5)

CYNTHIA MURPHY: (Mid 40s-50s) Connor and Zoe's mom. Warm, gentle, welcoming, wears her heart on her sleeve. Longs for connection with her family. Cynthia spends much of her show grieving the loss of her son, and searching for hope in Evan.

(Pop Alto F#3-E5.)

LARRY MURPHY: (Mid 40s-50s) Connor and Zoe's busy and distant father. A lawyer. A man of few words and fewer emotional tools. His relationship with Connor was strained, and the guilt of his failure manifests as anger, denial, resentment. It is important that we meet a guarded, almost cold realist, and see his walls come down as Evan warms the family dynamic.

(Pop Bari-tenor F#2-G4)
 

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